Wiktionary
Usage examples of "designates".
The expression 'cotanka' usually designates a fife or flute, but it may also be used more broadly to refer to any wind instrument whatsoever.
This creator only designates the relations of things to men, and for expressing these relations he lays hold of the boldest metaphors.
With creative pleasure it throws metaphors into confusion and displaces the boundary stones of abstractions, so that, for example, it designates the stream as "the moving path which carries man where he would otherwise walk.
This word has two senses: at one time it designates a last term in a series of approximations, and at another a certain internal character of convergence, a certain quality of progression.
The municipality of Aries designates fifty-one individuals, who pay the 86,200 livres, plus 2,785 francs exchange, and 300 francs for the cost of sojourn and delays.
The Committee of Supervision of each section, always aided by a member of the Commune,[91] designates all persons in easy circumstances, estimates their incomes as it pleases, or according to common report, and sends them an order to pay a particular sum in proportion to their surplus, and according to a progressive tax.
The suffix "sa" designates the color red, as in "Mazasa", "Red Metal", "Copper".
The suffix 'sa' designates the color red, as in 'Mazasa', 'Red Metal', 'Copper.